Aborigines & Activism: Race, Aborigines & the Coming of the Sixties to Australia
- ISBN-10
- 0980296579
- ISBN-13
- 9780980296570
- Category
- Aboriginal Australians
- Pages
- 308
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Pearson Deutschland GmbH
- Author
- Jennifer Clark
Description
Through rigorous research, the author shows how supporters of indigenous Australians and their struggles for equality pushed Australia into the 60s - literally and figuratively.
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